The Context of
"Singing School 2. A Constable Calls"
About this Poem
This is a poem about Heaney’s childhood when a local official inspects the farm that Heaney grew up on. It follows major themes that he commonly writes about like farming and childhood memories.
This is a poem about Heaney’s childhood when a local official inspects the farm that Heaney grew up on. It follows major themes that he commonly writes about like farming and childhood memories.
Definitions
Bevel - an instrument consisting of two rules or arms jointed together and opening to any angle for drawing angles or adjusting surfaces to be cut at an angle
Dynamo - a forceful energetic individual
Mangold - a cultivated root vegetable used as a fodder crop for feeding livestock
Dynamo - a forceful energetic individual
Mangold - a cultivated root vegetable used as a fodder crop for feeding livestock
Domesday Book
A record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror